What You Need To Know About Children’s Cough and Cold Medicine
by Wendi Aarons
Are OTC cough and cold medicines effective? Are cough and cold medicine safe for children? Do natural cures even work? It’s hard to know which advice is best. That’s why we’ve put together the following cheat sheet of cough and cold medicine information for parents wondering just how to treat their sick child. Hopefully it’s advice that will not only help your kids feel better, but will help you feel better, too.
Keeping Track of Your Kids, One GPS Coordinate At A Time
by Chris Jordan
Once you accept that your kids will be monitored around school by a tracking device, what’s next? Should we have a problem with schools tracking our children with chips embedded in their school ids?
When Is It Okay To Leave Your Kids Home Alone?
by Wendi Aarons
All that said, the decision to leave your kids alone is obviously a very personal one and depends on factors such as their maturity, their environment and your basic comfort level. As well as other issues like whether you should put the oldest kid in charge and your kids’ ability to follow safety rules to the letter.
Update: When Daddy’s Been Drinking
by Amalah
An update from one of our most memorable Advice Smackdown columns: The pregnant mom faced with a husband in rehab on her due date.
When Daddy’s Been Drinking, Part Two
by Amalah
I came home to find my baby in a dark room crying his eyes out…and my husband passed out drunk. What now? What’s next?
On Having The “Internet Talk” With Your Kids
by Amalah
Is talking about the Internet the new Sex Talk? I think about this a lot already, ESPECIALLY as a parent who blogs and uses an array of social networks and shares quite a bit about my life online.











